Projects supported by Guernsey Arts Commission

Funding History

Since 2008 the Arts Grants programme has funded more than 265 projects/activities in and around the Bailiwick. More than £720,000 has been committed to projects of all kinds.

Without this support, many of the Bailiwick’s best known and valued cultural events such as The Town Carnival, arts Sunday, the Lantern Parade, the Guernsey Photography Festival, the Vale Earth Fair and The Alderney Performing Arts Festival, to name but a few, may have never happened.

Below you can see exactly where funds have been allocated between 2010 and 2016. For 2008 and 2013 please see Related Documents to the right.

Projects supported in 2017

GAC’s arts’ grants have funded some incredible events, musicians, artists and community projects so far in 2017.

Arts Sunday

Guernsey Literary Festival

Town Carnival

Vale Earth Fair

Alderney Performing Arts Festival

Alderney Literary Festival

Guernsey History in Action

Chaos Voodoo Festival

The Zone Comic Anthology

Work in Progress

How to cut your losses and make a prophet by Andrew Smith

Guernsey Youth and Community Theatre

Miss Miz – Miss Cozette – the face of Les Miserables

Sound Under 18 Gigs – Jon Bisson

Proms on the Pier 2017

Guernsey Art Network

Guernsey Photography Festival

Saturday Night Fever

Elizabeth College Summer Orchestral Course (ECSOC)

School of Popular Music free co-curricular music lessons in secondary schools

Tony Booth Author

Sarka lee

Styx

Cain Hill

Victor Hugo Society in Guernsey L’Intervention

Alderney Theatre Group

Projects supported in 2016

GAC’s arts’ grants scheme funds arts projects and events that engage residents in the Bailiwick of Guernsey and adds to the cultural offer to both locals and visitors.

In 2016 we have welcomed applications from a range of art forms. Now we have held our last meeting in 2016, we have been able to create a pie chart of how the money was distributed across the art forms.

“From day one, the GAC has been such a fantastic supporter… with belief in our vision right from the start… their enthusiasm and advice helped to keep us motivated as we have developed the festival… to become such a successful community event.”
Simon Harvey, The Sark Folk Festival Organiser

Arts Sunday

Over 12,000 visitors came to Arts Sunday on 4th June 2017, based along the seafront at St Peter Port. It goes from strength to strength, with over 90 stalls in 2017.

“ Big thank you to you and all the volunteers, it was a great day, it always is, I’m definitely in for next year 😊

Regards, Jill Le Goupillot

Jill’s Poetry Gifts” arts Sunday 2017

General comments:

“I felt the Guernsey Arts Commission were akin to an Elder Brethren. I felt I could always phone up for advice and if the person I called could not provide the answer to my question then they always knew someone who I could ask who had the relevant knowledge. Members of the GAC came to the festival which enabled them to see the result of their support. It made us feel that Alderney was part of a bigger Channel Island Artistic community – not isolated, and that was a very good feeling.”
Caroline Kay-Mouat, Director of Alderney’s Performing Arts Festival